What does the regulator most want to see in future financial filings? Recent comment letters suggest that the Securities and Exchange Commission has a keen interest in goodwill impairments, fair-value measurements, and credit-risk disclosures. August 3, 2009

Olson will leave the accounting-firm overseer in mid-July after three years of dodging criticism over the PCAOB's first stab at an internal-control rule and working to establish the board as a solid regulator. June 8, 2009